How native speakers pronounce “forward”

that they do of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college but it was very very

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

again you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards so you have to trust

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

10 in Top Gun is enough to get our blood pumping but when you live in fast forward you pay a price

Running

this story begs the question we are living in Fast Forward are we running towards something

Running

to the questions that you might be able to ask that will push the conversation forward. You don't want to have to manufacture all of this on the spot.

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

never lose heart just dust yourself down and move forward trust me you got this

Finish

I'd never seen them communicate so well. They said that they were looking forward to every weekend that they got to spend together.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

That's one version. Then fast-forward eight years. Bill Gates came to my hometown --

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

I thought that was the start of my entrepreneur journey. Then, fast-forward another 14 years. I was 30.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

teach us what we don't know and lead us to something new. This is how science moves forward. This is how science learns. Sometimes in the media, and even more rarely,

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

you have to make it matter with something that gets them to lean forward in their seat. Something that ignites a little curiosity fire in their brain.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

I've been trying to make sense of the future they're growing up into. And what helped me make sense of it actually wasn't looking forward. It was going back, all the way back.

Why Humans Should Merge with AI | D. Scott Phoenix | TED · TED

but because survival taught her to value propulsion. Moving forward mattered more than being healed. My mother was terrified I wouldn't survive,

How I Set Myself Free | Keke Palmer | TED · TED

standing next to Oprah and the Queen. Well, you know, fast forward, if we did that cover now, it would be very crowded.

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

and almost 500 million people lived in extreme poverty. Fast forward 20 years, it's almost the opposite. Almost 500 Chinese billionaires and no one living in extreme poverty.

The Problem with Billionaires — and the Debut of True Net Worth | Randall Lane | TED · TED

And you might have to advocate for months or even years to take one step forward. Eventually, I came to believe

What I Got Wrong About Changing the World | Malala Yousafzai | TED · TED

and I was then handed a 39-page report brimming with blind quotes. I can tell you're looking forward to hearing the results. Sadists.

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

killing anxious niceness, and hopefully have some concrete steps to help you move forward. Thank you.

The Problem With Being “Too Nice” at Work | Tessa West | TED · TED

at how we've traditionally experienced friendship, and then you look forward at how we could build better relationships, better platonic relationships.

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

A setback is defined as a reversal or check in progress. It's when you're on a path, you're moving forward, and you are unexpectedly bumped backwards.

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

So take the rest. Give yourself the space you need before you propel yourself forward. Recognize any barriers you might still be facing

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

And when you're ready, move forward. Shed your cocoon.

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

So it's up to us to accept these trade-off moments, adapt and move forward. The second step is becoming aware of what I call your time bank.

Let Your Ambition Light You Up — Not Burn You Out | Tarveen Forrester | TED · TED

But definitely please, let's be aware of the differences, because the magic that's in those will help us move forward. And I'm going to give you some techniques

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

that I think will help you be able to bridge some of those connections as we move forward, alright? So the first step ... there are three.

3 Steps to Better Connect With Your Fellow Humans | Amber Cabral | TED · TED

The last one had people from over 32 countries. And it’s something we really look forward to every year. We’ve made huge connections, and we’re doing more research together

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

A reset won't turn awful into awesome, but it will let you ditch hopelessness and bring the best of you forward, sparking that priceless feeling of knowing you can count on yourself.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

keep a Hope Kit, a collection of items that elevates your mood within reach. It can have anything in it that propels you forward. These are shown to generate real hope.

Stress Resets, the Ultimate Mental Health Hack | Jenny Taitz | TED · TED

I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

my journey has taken me further in this direction and I think now we have an opportunity to take a huge leap forward thanks to content 3.0.

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

Content 3.0 is generated by you or together with you. Even more, going forward, I expect you'll be in it and a part of the story

What If You Could Talk to Your Favorite Character in a Movie? | Christoph Lassner | TED · TED

and have the greatest impact possible. Then, we take those specific programs forward. We study them in the laboratory, in clinical trials,

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

the place where humanity began, we might just show the world the way forward. Thank you.

The Blueprint for Serving a Million School Lunches — Every Day | Wawira Njiru | TED · TED

and lasted for 12 years. Fast forward into today, the cycle of violence remains an extremely concentrated problem

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

instead of going back to what we were before we actually go sideways forward or some unforeseen Place entirely

Meaning

is the point at which the revolution really started. BS: If you fast forward to today, it seems that all anyone can talk about is AI,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

or DeepSeek R1, and you can see how it goes forward and back, forward and back. It's extraordinary.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

For instance, the well-known filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma recently said that he'll use AI music in all his projects going forward. Indeed, there are multiple reports of people starting to listen to AI music

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

That is a precious and totally unearned inheritance, and I think we have an obligation to pay that forward and leave an even bigger legacy for our descendants.

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

if the Luddites actually had managed to halt progress in its tracks. Effectively, they'd have been reaching forward in time and taking almost everything we have in order to enrich themselves.

I’ll Probably Lose My Job to AI. Here’s Why That’s OK | Megan J. McArdle | TED · TED

My friend identified a project she wished she had already completed, not something she was looking forward to doing. Have you ever set a goal you wish you had already completed

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

We care about the way almost as much as we are looking forward to the destination. In our research, we found that most goals are abandoned,

How to Set the Right Goals and Stay Motivated | Ayelet Fishbach | TED · TED

you're often more focused on your own needs. But gratitude makes you want to pay it forward. And I experienced this personally.

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

I am talking about a way that comes from confidence, the kind of confidence that can keep us moving forward when we are feeling

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

surrounded by loved ones. And now can you picture someone leaning forward across that campfire? It glows in their face.

The Breakthrough Power of Young Leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan | TED · TED

Dr. Alok Kanojia talks about this, particularly with young men. And because we have this huge, like, "What's the point of going forward," we see a lot of people relying on lateral experiences.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

And, you know, “Give me your credit card” and everything else, and I declined on this case to go forward. But I think this is the challenge that people are going to have.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

which means that no matter how dark things are, you look for a pathway forward that has some hope, and you try and shine a light on it.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

But if I was anxious, I would look forward and be like, I'm going to be cold, I'm going to regret this.

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

and I think sometimes with the oldest, parents, that's when they put their best foot forward, like they want to raise the next, you know,

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

by doing this psychoeducation, trauma education. And, you know, fast forward, we were able to get the funding through Audacious,

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

Like, what would you advise other people who are trying to push forward there? DF: I think if you observe a major problem,

How Do You Turn Setbacks Into Motivation? A Doctor + A Trauma Specialist Answer | TED Intersections · TED

Erasmus told us that prevention was better than cure. Now, that might seem forward-thinking, but when bloodsucking leeches are the best cure

Is Your Partner “The One?” Wrong Question | George Blair-West | TED · TED

That's going to be a negotiation you're going to decide for yourselves from these days forward. And maybe you decide you know what,

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

AWG: Yeah, so I actually just turned in the paper to Stanford, which is an AI policy paper about what we need to do going forward and how we move from today's trajectory into something better.

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

that has made motherhood sound like something I'm not sure I look forward to. I've written too many poems about dead Black children to be naïve

Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa

in fact, don't even say the word to be taken seriously. Now fast forward to this year, I’m hearing: “Don’t work on it because ChatGPT has almost solved it.”

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

they didn't reach for easy answers. Out of more than 100 risks put forward, the top-cited one: overreliance on systems we don't understand.

How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED · TED

It's about a third of the planet. So fast-forward to more recent history. 2015 -- in blue the countries where life expectancy is above 70.

Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | TED · TED

And, you know, all this generative AI stuff is amazing. But let's roll the clock forward a bit. Microsoft and OpenAI are reported to be building

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

So this is it. This is the step forward: AI that adapts after training.

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

We start with a language prompt, "Make me a robot that can walk forward," and our system generates the designs including shape, materials, actuators,

How AI Will Step Off the Screen and into the Real World | Daniela Rus | TED · TED

So, I'm still a skeptical little kid. Flash-forward now to December of 2015, when I found myself smack in the middle

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

And yet, every step forward is so sweet. In 2007, six years after we met,

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

that nirvana is what arrives when all your woe is behind you, and you have only bliss to look forward to. But he said that would not be nirvana,

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

Nirvana, he said, is what you arrive at when you have only bliss to look forward to and find in what looked like sorrows the seedlings of your joy.

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

but to show us the steps to get there. And this makes the audience lean forward. And all they need to do to be part of this amazing story is say yes.

The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea | The Way We Work, a TED series

And with my husband and our two daughters, I get the chance to pay it forward. So I hope you'll join me in leaning into tricky conversations,

How to Speak Up — Even When You Don’t Want To | Sarah Crawford-Bohl | TED · TED

What do I make of this? Well, I think there's something in here that's a clue, a way forward. As journalists, we love difference.

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad